Re: bug in zsh 2.6 beta 11

[Vinnie Shelton <shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <9511071542.AA01774@xxxxxxxxxx>, Peter William Stephenson wrote:
>According to kpc:

>O.K., I can now confirm this... it's a classic exit-instead-of-_exit
>bug AGAIN --- I fixed this just a couple of months ago and the _exit I
>put into execcmd() has mysteriously vanished from the face of the
>earth.  (I'm pretty sure it was the same bug, apologies if it was
>something slightly different which became redundant.)  The subshell
>forked to do the `fix ...` was calling exit(), which messed up the
>files for the parent shell.  (This is going to cause apparently random
>inexplicable bugs on all sorts of SYSV-like machines until it's
>re-fixed.)

I was having big problems under Solaris 2.3 until I applied
this patch.  In particular $(whence foo) in my init scripts was
bombing.  Thanks, Peter.

--Vin